Paper Award Research Articles

2023 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award

2023 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award

Announcement of the 2023 FCS Paper Awards

Announcement of the 2023 FCS Paper Awards

2023 R. W. P. King Paper Award

2023 R. W. P. King Paper Award

Letter from the Chair

Greetings SIGIR Members! SIGIR in Taipei was a success. A big thank you to the general chairs Hsin-Hsi Chen, Wei-Jou (Edward) Duh , and Hen-Hsen Huang , for putting on a great conference, in a beautiful venue. Thank you also to the Program Chairs Makoto Kato, Josiane Mothe and Barbara Poblete for the excellent technical programming! We would like to congratulate the Best Paper winners Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen , and Martin Potthast for their paper The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform. We would also like to congratulate Alireza Salemi, Juan Altmayer Pizzorno , and Hamed Zamani whose paper A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering won the Best Student Paper Award at SIGIR this year. Preparations for SIGIR 2024 in Washington DC are well underway, as preparations for SIGIR 2025 in Padua are beginning.

Editorial

This next Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology issue is published on the heels of the well-attended ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education) conference. The Conference’s overlapping topics and attendant researchers, well-known to this journal, remind us that our field is important, well-subscribed, growing, and changing. An excellent overview of this ICDE Conference and information about the state of education transformation in the current global context can be found here in recent blog posts by the well-known expert and author on the topic of education and technology, Dr. Tony Bates.
 Learning and technology, the focus of research published by CJLT, is a microcosm in the much larger fields of open, distance, and digital education. Research spans all sectors: primary, secondary, post-secondary, higher education, and lifelong learning. Across issues and years, we seek to touch on the research, theory, and practice in these areas, particularly those where authors are in, or research topics are relevant to, Canada. Canadian researchers were well-represented at the recent ICDE conference, and a Canadian researcher received the conference’s best paper award!

Libri Best Student Research Paper Award 2024

Libri Best Student Research Paper Award 2024

Congratulations ! JACIII Best Paper and Young Researcher Awards 2023

We are pleased to announce that the JACIII Awards of 2023 have been decided by the JACIII editorial boards. This year, the award winning papers were severely and fairly selected among 296 papers published in JACIII Vols.24 (2020) to 26 (2022) and there was no entries that deserved the Best Review Paper award. The award ceremony was held online.

The Best Paper Award 2023 and The Best Review Award 2023 Congratulations!

The 14th Best Paper Award 2023 ceremony was held at the University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, August 23, 2023 in the 72nd CIRP General Assembly, attended by the winner and IJAT committee members who took part in the selection process. At the same time, the 4th Best Review Award 2023 has been decided by IJAT Editorial Committee. The Best Paper was severely selected from among 87 papers published in Vol.16 (2022) and Best Review was selected from 10 reviews published from Vol.12 No.5 (2018) to Vol.16 No.4 (2022). The Best Paper Award winner was given a certificate with a JPY100,000 honorarium, and the Best Review Award winner was given a certificate with award plaque. We extend our warmest congratulations to the winners and express our heartfelt wishes for their continued success in the future.

2023 ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting: Faculty of Pain Medicine Dean’s Prize and Best Free Paper Award session abstracts

2023 ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting: Faculty of Pain Medicine Dean’s Prize and Best Free Paper Award session abstracts

Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism Best Paper Award 2023.

Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism Best Paper Award 2023.

Bit-Sliced Implementation of SM4 and New Performance Records

SM4 is a popular block cipher issued by the Office of State Commercial Cryptography Administration (OSCCA) of China. In this paper, we use the bit-slicing technique that has been shown as a powerful strategy to achieve very fast software implementations of SM4. We investigate optimizations on two frontiers. First, we present a more efficient bit-sliced representation for SM4, which enables running 64 blocks in parallel with 256-bit registers. Second, we describe an optimized algorithm for data form transformations, also allowing efficient implementations of SM4 under Counter (CTR) mode and Galois/Counter mode. The above optimizations contribute to a significant performance gain on one core compared with the state-of-the-art results. This work is an extension of the conference paper at Inscrypt 2022, awarded the best paper award.

Minecraft: A Remote Laboratory for Game-Based Distance Learning

Immersive learning environments are some of the technological and cognitive artifacts that can support active teaching approaches, in which product and process evaluation can sustain significant learning even in remote contexts, if well designed and calibrated for the students in training. The paper delves into the experience of remote laboratory teaching conducted within the MineClass project between 2018 and 2021, during which the pandemic school saw a reduction at a national level of active and collaborative laboratory activities due to social distancing, both in-person and remotely. The study integrates results from case studies, qualitative and quantitative surveys, and semi-structured interviews directed at participants in the experimentation. Within the larger primary sample, a follow-up questionnaire was administered in 2022 with the aim of exploring the didactic use of the video game during the pandemic years; most respondents reported continuing laboratory teaching activities with Minecraft even to support distance learning after the conclusion of the MineClass project. The results show the positive impact of the experimentation in terms of perceived added value by teachers for the development of cross-cutting competences, increased motivation, involvement, and autonomy of their students. Conference organisers' note: This paper was granted the EDEN Best Research Paper Award, in cooperation with The UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change. It is a traditional award of EDEN Annual Conferences and Research Workshops. The appointed honourable jury blind selects 8-10 finalists and appoints only 1 Best Research Paper Award that is officially announced during the Gala dinner of the Conference. EDEN Best Research Paper Award competition is based on evaluation results on submission of Full Papers presented to the Annual Conference that follow five standard evaluation criteria: The paper deals with a research question. Rigorous examination/research methods are applied. Findings, results and outcomes are convincingly presented and critically examined. Conclusions are thoroughly discussed (including applicability, transferability, and further research. Literature is reviewed against state of the art. The composition of the honourable jury for the EDEN Best Research Paper Award is composed in cooperation with The UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change: Alfredo Soeiro, Chair, University of Porto, Portugal Orna Farrell, Dublin City University, Ireland Maria Rosaria Re, University of Roma Tre, Italy

2022 Best Paper Award

2022 Best Paper Award

Announcing the 2022 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mentions

Abstract The 2022 Best Paper Award is given to the paper recognized by the Editor and Editorial Board for its outstanding contribution to the field of mechanisms and robotics published by JMR in 2022. The prize includes a wall plaque for each author and will be announced in the journal, on JMR's companion website (asmejmr.org), and through the journal's online social media channels.

Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet

2021 SECEC Annual Meeting Best Paper Award: Elbow hemiarthroplasty and total elbow arthroplasty provided a similar functional outcome for unreconstructable distal humeral fractures in patients aged 60 years or older: a multicenter randomized controlled trial

Semiconstrained total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) is an established treatment for elderly patients with distal humeral fractures not amenable to stable internal fixation (unreconstructable). In recent years, there has been increasing interest in elbow hemiarthroplasty (EHA), a treatment option which does not entail restrictions on weight-bearing as opposed to TEA. These 2 treatments have not been compared in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). The aim of this study was to compare the functional outcome of EHA and TEA for the treatment of unreconstructable distal humeral fractures in elderly patients. This was a multicenter randomized controlled trial (RCT). Patients were included between January 2011 and November 2019 at one of 3 participating hospitals. The inclusion criteria were an unreconstructable distal humeral fracture, age ≥60years and independent living. The final follow-up took place after ≥2years. The primary outcome measure was the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) score. Secondary outcome measures were the Mayo Elbow Performance Score (MEPS), the EQ-5D index, range of motion (flexion, extension, pronation, and supination) and grip strength. Forty patients were randomized to TEA (n=20) and EHA (n=20). Five patients died before completing the final follow-up, leaving 18 EHA and 17 TEA patients for analysis. There were 31 women. The mean age was 74.0 (SD, 8.5) years in the EHA group and 76.9 (SD, 7.6) in the TEA group (P=.30). The mean DASH score was 21.6 points in the EHA group and 27.2 in the TEA group (P=.39), a difference of -5.6 points (95% CI: -18.6 to 7.5). There were no differences between treatment with EHA and TEA for the mean values of the MEPS (85.0 vs. 88.2, P=.59), EQ-5D index (0.92 vs. 0.86, P=.13), extension (29° vs. 29°, P=.98), flexion (126° vs. 136°, P=.05), arc of flexion-extension (97° vs. 107°, P=.25), supination (81° vs. 75°, P=.13), pronation (78° vs. 74°, P=.16) or grip strength (17.5kg vs. 17.2kg, P=.89). There were 6 adverse events in each treatment group. In this RCT, both elbow hemiarthroplasty (EHA) and total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) resulted in a good and similar functional outcome for unreconstructable distal humeral fractures in elderly patients at a minimum of 2years of follow-up.

2023 Outstanding Paper Awards

2023 Outstanding Paper Awards

John J. Sciarra Prize Paper Award for 2023

John J. Sciarra Prize Paper Award for 2023

Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Volume 22 Best Paper Award

Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Volume 22 Best Paper Award

An innovative 4.0 system to prevent the spreading of the diseases which threaten the globalized world

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to provide an effective contribution to contrast the spread of Covid19. Therefore, the authors aimed to model a new strategy (technologies and processes), using the principles made available by Industry 4.0.MethodThe strategy consists in an IoT thermoscanner (developed by the authors, strategically placed throughout the settlement), and an innovative method of disinfection (achieved by redesigning the sanitization processes, using UV-C rays and gaseous Ozone produced by IoT machines, again conceptualized and developed by the authors, being capable of reproducing the Chapman Cycle and its associated benefits). This method was discussed in the article "Sanitizing of Confined Spaces Using Gaseous Ozone Produced by 4.0 Machines," which was presented at the WCE 2021 IAENG Congress (Best Paper Award of the 2021 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering).ResultThe results consist in: 1. an absolute disinfection system based on a reversible cycle Oxygen-Ozone-Oxygen, with quick re-habitability of the treated rooms, at a minimum treatment costs, without expensive and harmful chemicals or moist water vapor (incompatible by nature with paper and electronics); 2. a 4.0 device for quick detection of fever; 3. clear processes for disease spread prevention.ConclusionThe target contribution was widely achieved, providing machinery, processes and procedures. The authors aim now to extend the solution proposed to any other type virus, bacteria, or pathogen agent introduced by subjects who, despite being unaware of acting as vectors, develop infection along their stay in hotels, offices or any other public place.